Medium
Security advisory
The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-18267
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.
osv:CVE-2017-18267
Complete source record
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